Lispe cana (Walker)

Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia 2503, Zootaxa 2503 (1), pp. 1-61 : 43-44

29. Lispe cana (Walker)

Anthomyia cana Walker, 1849: 929 . Holotype male, “New Holland” (= Australia), in BMNH (seen).

Lispe cana ; Pont, 1989: 693; Shinonaga et al., 1991: 332.

Diagnosis. Body covered with a silvery-grey pollen; frons strongly silvery in male and golden in female, postpedicel very short; vibrissa vestigial in male; arista short, enlarged at base; palpus very broad at apex, spoon-shaped and with silver/golden pollen; 3 pairs of postsutural dorsocentrals, sometimes with an extra short seta in female between 1st and 2nd dorsocentrals; legs silvery-grey, femoro-tibial joints and tarsi reddish-brown; male with hind tarsomere 1 enlarged; abdomen strongly silvery with no brown marks or with a median spot and two round lateral spots on tergite 5 when viewed from above; tergite 5 with 4 pairs of lateral discal setae and 6–7 pairs of apicals.

Material examined: MNHN: New Caledonia: Hienghène : 21–22.ii.1978, H. Kurahashi, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Shinonaga det.

NSMT: New Caledonia: Hienghène : 21–22.ii.1978, H. Kurahashi, 1 ♂, 8 ♀, Shinonaga det.

BPBM: New Caledonia: Pouébo : 20–100 m, 3.ii.1964, 1 ♂, 2 ♀, R. Straatman. Isle of Pines: 24.x.1940, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, F.X. W[illiams] .

Comments. First recorded from Hienghène by Shinonaga et al. (1991). The species was keyed and redescribed by Malloch (1923b).

Distribution. Australia (NSW), Indonesia (Maluku), Lord Howe I., New Caledonia ( New Caledonia, Isle of Pines), PNG ( PNG), Rennell I., Solomon Is, Western Samoa.